Uranus in Aries squared Pluto in Capricorn from 2012 to 2015, and an earlier square fell in the early 1930s. Everyone born within those spans carries the aspect, which makes it a fact about a cohort before it is a fact about a person. The friction is unusually raw. One function insists on breaking free at once, the other on holding and remaking the deep structure, and both are absolute. No compromise position exists between them, which is why the periods themselves are remembered for upheaval rather than negotiation.
For one native the useful questions are which houses hold the two ends and what touches them. Fifth against second gives repeated collisions between the desire to do as one likes and the machinery of earning. First against tenth makes the native's own bearing a standing provocation to whatever authority they work under, without any intention on their part. The square operates in episodes rather than continuously, flaring when a transit crosses either end, and between flare-ups the native may forget that this part of the chart is loaded at all.
A personal planet completing the configuration is what makes it a temperament. Mars there gives an aggressive intolerance of being governed and a genuine capacity for confrontation. Mercury gives a mind that pushes ideas past the point where they can be safely stated. The value, and it is considerable, is that these natives cannot be quietly absorbed into a system that is rotten. They will act, at cost to themselves, where more comfortable charts will accommodate. The cost is real and should not be described as anything else.
What It Gives
- ◆refusal to be quietly absorbed
- ◆willingness to act at personal cost
- ◆endurance under real confrontation
- ◆instinct for rotten arrangements
What It Costs
- ◆no compromise position available
- ◆provocation given without intent
- ◆upheaval arriving in violent episodes
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
Cast Your Birth Chart